the trial around the disappearance of Narumi Kurosaki opens in Besançon

Nicolas Zepeda was 26 at the time of the events. At 31, he is, Tuesday, March 29, confronted for the first time with the jurors of an assize court. Six years of investigation are brought together in boxes and sealed, the only elements on which justice will have to rely to question the Chilean, in an international affair without body or confession. In December 2016, Narumi Kurosaki disappeared from the university campus of Besançon (Doubs). The 21-year-old Japanese student learned French there.

The last to have seen her is Nicolas Zepeda, her ex-boyfriend, with whom she had just spent the evening. Two months earlier, he had threatened her on social networks, when she had just left him. Sole suspect, the son of a good family was extradited from Chile to France in 2020. Tenor of the bar, master Jacqueline Laffont, Nicolas Zepeda’s lawyer, hopes to convince the jurors that the investigation focused too quickly on her client.